I loathe music (except musical comedies), and I think if ever there was a set of appalling rottersI feel inclined to knock them off the music-stool the way they go on at Lady Everard'sat the same time, some of them are very cultured and intelligent chaps, and she's a very charming woman.

The cabinet is not only interesting in itself, but will be doubly so to you because of the part it has played in our little comedy.

* There is material for a book, all mixt of interest varying from very light comedy to unplumbed gloom, in the life of two boys at collegeany two; and some day the chronicles of the Delafield Duo may be written; but not now.

The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Introd.

In Sir William Barclay's The Lost Lady (folio 1639), a good, if intricate, tragi-comedy, which was received with applause after the Restoration [Pepys saw it 19 January, 1661, and again, rather more than a week later, on the 28th of the same month], and not forgotten by Buckingham when he penned The Rehearsal, Milesia (supposed dead), the wife of Lysicles, appears to her husband as a ghost Act v, sc.

This is, however, far from saying that it is not a very good example of the Davenant, Howard, Porter, Stapylton school of romantic tragi-comedy.

In the only remnant of the mock-heroic comedy of this periodthe -Amphitruo- of Plautusthere breathes throughout a purer and more poetical atmosphere than in all the other remains of the contemporary stage.

When Johnson rejected pastoral comedy, as being representative of scenes adapted chiefly "to please barbarians and children," he might have suspected that his own eye-sight, rather than pastoral comedy, was to blame.

But it is pure comedy throughout.

And though thou think'st with tragic fumes To brave my play unto my deep disgrace, I force it not, I scorn what thou canst do; I'll grace it so, thyself shall it confess, From tragic stuff to be a pleasant comedy.

[Fr.]; melodrama, melodrame^; comidie larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue; duologue trilogy^; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

The parade ground of Bagumbayan was the theater of this tragic comedy, for such it may be trully called, and never did I experience such a revulsion of feeling as upon this occasion.

From first to last, however associated with that whimsical comedy of which, too, he is appropriately a master, he has struck for me that note of almost heartbreaking spiritual intensity which, under all its superficial materialism and cynicism, is the key-note of the modern world.

This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley, but gathered some allays of the sentimental comedy which followed theirs.

The scene gives the reader a shock, but is a brilliant piece of satirical comedy, with a good deal of pathos in it, too.

light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy. theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini^; marionettes, Punch and Judy. auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses

This secret correspondence with the company before the curtain (which is the bane and death of tragedy) has an extremely happy effect in some kinds of comedy, in the more highly artificial comedy of Congreve or of Sheridan especially, where the absolute sense of reality (so indispensable to scenes of interest) is not required, or would rather interfere to diminish your pleasure.

The next play, "Gammer Gurton's Needle" (cir. 1562), is a domestic comedy, a true bit of English realism, representing the life of the peasant class.

Character (Greek: ᤦθος) in oratory, he says, is similar to comedy, as the passions (πάθος) are to tragedy.[205] Professor Butcher calls attention to the early influence of the character sketches on the middle comedy.

It is not easy to define the principle of unity in that brilliant comedy The Madras House; but we nevertheless feel that a principle of unity exists; or, if we do not, so much the worse for the play and its author.

The English Lawyer, a Comedy; acted at the theatre-royal 1678; this is only a translation of the celebrated latin comedy of Ignoramus, written by Mr. Ruggle of Clare-hall, Cambridge.

In his later comedies the names are admirably chosen: they are characteristic without eccentricity or punning.

Again, we find it in the tragical comedy of "Appius and Virginia," 1575"Let my counsel at no time lie with you geason," sig.

During the summer season of 1718 there was, on 24 July, a revival, 'not acted twenty years,' of this witty comedy at Lincoln's Inn Fields.

In the second volume there will be published for the first time a fine tragedy (hitherto quite unknown) by Massinger and Fletcher, and a lively comedy (also quite unknown) by James Shirley.